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Re: New APT version



Hi,
>>"Brederlow" == Brederlow  <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:


 Brederlow> Because its hard (a lot of work) to tell what directories
 Brederlow> will on different devices and which will never be on
 Brederlow> different devices,

	Not nerely hard, impossible. You can try and guess
 probabilities, but I think going from 3 levels to 5 levels changes
 the total size of the resulting data by an insignificant amount.

 Brederlow> its probably a good idea to include a
 Brederlow> du tree for say the first 3 directory levels
 Brederlow> /usr/X11R6/lib but not further. 4 or 5 might be a saver
 Brederlow> value, but that could be made the reponsibility of the
 Brederlow> maintainer. Theres no need to define that it must be
 Brederlow> 3. Any depth should be handled correctly.

	Yup.


	manoj

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